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[Verse 1]
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When I was a lad I was so glad
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To go out in the daytime
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With me fork, a bottle and a cork
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To help out in the haytime
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Tossin' hay one fine day
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I met young Lucy Bailey
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And I said my dear "Are you often here"
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She said "Yes sir, twice daily"


[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Well we had such fun in the summer sun
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Lucy was so thrillin'
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So sweet and pure but I wasn't sure
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If that girl was willin'
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Until one day among the hay
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We were working gaily
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When she up's and slips and her garters ripped
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And I went there twice daily


[Chorus]
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Did the rum do dee, did de rum do da
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Did the rum da do do randy
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Did the rye do dee, did the rye do da
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Did the rye do dee, twice daily


[Verse 3]
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Well Lucy's dad he was very mad
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He chased me 'round the haybarn
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He said "My son, now you've had your fun
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The time has come to pay now"
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"The girl you'll wed", the old man said
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As he waved his shotgun gaily
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"If you don't", he says, "where I'll put the lead
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You won't sit there twice daily"


[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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So the very next day in the month of May
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We held the ceremony
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And we paid off the vicar with a gallon of liquor
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And we rode to church on a pony
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To Lucy's joy we had a boy
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What a little darlin'
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He's round and fat as a Cheshire cat
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As perky as a starlin'


[Chorus]
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Did the rum do dee, did de rum do da
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Did the rum da do do randy
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Did the rye do dee, did the rye do da
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Did the rye do dee, twice daily


[Verse 5]
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Well now we're old, our story's told
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Forty years together
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Tho' we often stray where we tossed the hay
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In that old time summer weather
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Well, kids we've got ten or more
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We goes on quite gaily
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Tho' I'm old and grey when I've got me way
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I still go there twice daily


[Chorus]
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Did the rum do dee, did de rum do da
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Did the rum da do do randy
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Did the rye do dee, did the rye do da
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Did the rye do dee, twice daily